She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

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...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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